In the list below you can see the coordinating and contributing taxonomic experts per organism group, the status of their organism group and a link to the latest published checklist as pdf. If you want to get in touch with one of the experts, please contact our project manager.

For general questions please contact:

Overall coordination
Koen Martens, Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium

Project manager
Géraldine Mertens, Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium

Database manager
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (BOKU-IHG), Vienna, Austria

Technical manager
Tim Sutton, Kartoza, South Africa

	organism group	coordinator(s)	team member(s)	database status	latest checklist
	Porifera	Renata Manconi		in progress
	Cnidaria-Hydroida	Davide Maggioni	Thomas Jankowski Boris Anokhin Nadine Folino-Rorem	data being processed
	Platyhelminthes-Turbellaria (non parasitic)	Tom Artois		in progress
	Platyhelminthes-Turbellaria (parasitic)	Nikol Kmentova	Maarten Vanhove	in progress
	Rotifera	Diego Fontaneto		in progress
	Nemertea	Jon Norenburg		in progress
	Nematoda	Ursula Eisendle	Eyualem Abebe	in progress
	Nematomorpha	Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa		data being processed
	Gastrotricha	Maria Balsamo	Jean-Loup d’Hondt  André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni  Axell Minowa  Małgorzata Kolicka  Paolo Grilli  Loretta Guidi  Alexander Kieneke  Thiago Quintão Araújo	data being processed
	Bryozoa	Timothy Wood		data being processed
	Tardigrada	Roberto Guidetti		in progress
	Annelida-Oligochaeta	Patrick Martin		not started
	Annelida-Polychaeta	Geoff Read	Christopher J. Glasby	in progress
	Annelida-Hirudinea	Serge Utevsky	Peter Trontelj	in progress
	Mollusca-Gastropoda	Ellen Strong	Philippe Bouchet Maxim Vinarski	in progress
	Mollusca-Bivalvia	Arthur Bogan		not started
	Crustacea-Branchiopoda (excl. Cladocera)	Luc Brendonck		in progress
	Crustacea-Branchiopoda-Cladocera	Adam Petrusek	Alexey A. Kotov	in progress
	Crustacea-Ostracoda	Koen Martens  Claude Meisch  Robin J. Smith		data being processed
	Crustacea-Copepoda	Fabio Stoch	Federico Marrone  Maria Cristina Bruno	in progress
	Crustacea-Branchiura
	Crustacea-Mysida	Risto Vainola		in progress
	Crustacea-Spelaeogriphacea	Anna Stepien		data being processed
	Crustacea-Thermosbaenacea	Anna Stepien		data being processed
	Crustacea-Cumacea	Anna Stepien		data being processed
	Crustacea-Tanaidacea	Anna Stepien		data being processed
	Crustacea-Isopoda	Christopher B. Boyko		in progress
	Crustacea-Amphipoda & Ingolfiellida	Denis Copilas-Cioacianu	Tammy Horton, Michal Grabowski Rachael King Risto Väinölä Cene Fišer Maja Zagmajster	data being processed
	Crustacea-Syncaridea	Ana Camacho		data being processed
	Decapoda-Astacidea, Cambaridae & Parastacidae	Keith Crandall		in progress
	Decapoda-Anomura-Aeglidae	Keith Crandall	Marlise Santos  Sandro Santos	in progress
	Decapoda-Brachyura	Darren Yeo Chong Jinn		not started
	Decapoda-Caridea	Sammy De Grave		in progress
	Arachnida-Acari-Halacaridae	Ilse Bartsch	Tobias Pfingstl	in progress
	Arachnida-Acari-Oribatida	Tobias Pfingstl		data being processed
	Arachnida-Acari-Hydrachnidia	Harry Smit	Karl-Heinz Schmidt	not started
	Collembola	Louis Deharveng	Anne Bedos	in progress
	Insecta-Ephemeroptera	Helen Barber-James	Michel Sartori  Frederico Salles	data being processed
	Insecta-Odonata	Vincent Kalkman	John C. Abbott	in progress
	Insecta-Plecoptera	Ed DeWalt		in progress
	Insecta-Hemiptera & Heteroptera	Dan Polhemus		in progress
	Insecta-Trichoptera	John Morse		in progress
	Insecta-Megaloptera & Neuroptera	Atilano Contreras Ramos  Caleb C. Martins	John D. Oswald  David E. Bowles  Liu Xingyue	in progress
	Insecta-Coleoptera	Manfred Jäch		not started
	Insecta-Mecoptera
	Insecta-Diptera-Chironomidae	Barbara Hayford		in progress
	Insecta-Diptera-Tipulidae	Sigitas Podenas	Jon Gelhaus	in progress
	Insecta-Diptera-Simuliidae	Peter Adler		in progress
	Insecta-Diptera-Culicidae	Yvonne Linton		in progress
	Insecta-Diptera-other families
	Insecta-Lepidoptera	Alma Solis	Matthias Nuss Richard Mally	in progress
	Insecta-Hymenoptera
	Insecta-Orthoptera	Holger Braun		not started
	Vertebrata-Pisces	Pablo Tedesco Thierry Oberdorff  Nicolas Bailly	Céline Jézéquel	data being processed
	Vertebrata-Amphibia	Jörn Köhler	Miguel Vences  Darrel Frost	not started
	Vertebrata-Reptilia-Lacertilia	Aaron Bauer		data being processed
	Vertebrata-Reptilia-Crocodilia	Antoine Soler		in progress
	Vertebrata-Reptilia-Testudines
	Vertebrata-Reptilia-Serpentes	Olivier Pauwels		in progress
	Vertebrata-Mammalia	Géraldine Véron	Violaine Nicolas  Gill Braulik	in progress
	Vertebrata-Aves
	Macrophyta	Rossano Bolpagni	Patricia Chambers Kevin Murphy	in progress

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